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So the required is almost a 400km each day, with a 400km recovery ride the next day no recovery ride, and repeat... Mind is boggling again.

Go Steve!

Go Steve indeed.

BUT ...I really don't think it is constructive to speculate on an average of 400km/day for the rest of the year. Some day - perhaps in my lifetime - we'll see a sub 2hr marathon. But this is the sub 1:50 equivalent. Possible to maintain the pace for a couple of days but not humanely possible to keep up through summer, autumn and winter.

Matching Tommy Goodwin is pretty superhuman. Shading the record is possible and probable if all things went well. But smashing it to smithereens, is just not on the cards. Some sanity please.

To hell with sanity. Many of humanity's greatest achievements have been completed by flying in the face of sanity. We'll only know if someone can achieve the seemingly impossible by giving it a decent go.

So the required is almost a 400km each day, with a 400km recovery ride the next day no recovery ride, and repeat... Mind is boggling again.

Go Steve!

Go Steve indeed.

BUT ...I really don't think it is constructive to speculate on an average of 400km/day for the rest of the year. Some day - perhaps in my lifetime - we'll see a sub 2hr marathon. But this is the sub 1:50 equivalent. Possible to maintain the pace for a couple of days but not humanely possible to keep up through summer, autumn and winter.

Matching Tommy Goodwin is pretty superhuman. Shading the record is possible and probable if all things went well. But smashing it to smithereens, is just not on the cards. Some sanity please.

Interesting that you're so confident it's only possible to maintain an average over 400km/day for a couple of days. Tommy Godwin managed it for a couple of months straight in June and July - and even though his mileage fell off in August and September, that only dropped his 4-month average to 399.5km/day.

(In fact, a 308 mile day on May 31st tips his 123 day average back over the 400km mark - at 400.3 - astonishing.)

A point that seems to be getting forgotten is that Tommy Godwin was a 29yr old full time rider and racer in his prime; it is almost dismissive of his efforts to think that a couple of 50yr olds are competing at the same level of potential performance (not very well put but someone will understand I hope), even if endurance riders do hit their peak later in life than short distance riders (and on that score it is also interesting to note the extremely tender ages of some of the pioneering french diagonalists).

I'd not rule out a concurrent attempt starting 1st of July or August. looking at Steve's lower target for June was 265 miles per day with July being 285 per day. I doubt he would wish to start before he was up to speed (so to speak) on that basisnone of us doubt he will choose the best timing mindful of his proven track record! G O S T E V E

The problem with that is that when Steve does achieve the first HAMR 365 day record, although it'll be magnificent in its own right it'll be overshadowed if he hasn't passed 75k miles, and doubly so if Kurt is (a) significantly ahead and/or (b) on course to surpass 75k miles himself.

The thing that staggers me is that no matter how great the achievements of all HAMR participants so far, they are still behind the average needed across the year (even if ahead of TG's 1939 progress so far).